Islamabad, March 7 -- Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday directed the concerned officials to expedite the privatisation process of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), and other loss-making state-owned institutions, ARY News reported.

According to the report, PM Sharif called a high-level meeting in Islamabad to take stock of the privatisation process and also directed that immediate measures should be taken to strengthen the ability of the institutions in charge of privatisation to resuscitate the economy and speed up the process of delivering assistance to people.

ARY News reported that the meeting reviewed the progress made so far and the challenges in privatising loss-making state-owned ...